“…HTS largely replaced conventional low-throughput Sanger-based sequencing technologies for genome-scale studies. Multiple genome sequencing approaches (DNA-seq, RAD-seq, GBS, AgSeq) are being used to study genetic variations, discovery of novel genes, high-throughput genotyping, biomarker discovery, and precision medicine (Awika, et al, 2019;Bolger, et al, 2014;Edwards and Batley, 2010;Kandel, et al, 2019;Suwinski, et al, 2019). Similarly, transcriptome-level sequencing approaches (RNA-seq) allows determining the steadystate expression of genes, identification of novel transcripts and isoforms, alternatively splicing patterns, polymorphisms, gene co-expression networks, allele-specific expressions, and long non-coding RNAs (lincRNA) Xu, et al, 2018;Zhou, et al, 2018).…”